Beginning with Leslie Fiedler’s groundbreaking Love and Death in the American Novel, UB’s English Department has had a long history of innovative work in nineteenth-century American literary ...

Lafayette’s Ball evoques the festivities that honored Lafayette, the Revolutionary War hero who helped secure American ...

Description. This lesson focuses on the evolution of American museums in the late-18th and early-19th centuries. The lesson, which features Harvard University professor and author Reed Gochberg ...

But by the end of the 19th century, ... however, were leveled against Adam Smith, the Scottish economist who became the perfect straw-man for early American protectionists.

In contrast, early 19th century nativists worried more about religion and how to protect America's culturally Protestant foundations from Catholic immigrants — most of whom, at this point, came ...